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#March 2017

Sometimes (e.g You are developing an IoT Project), you need to connect you board to Virtual Machine via USB Port. This post will show you steps to connect USB port from Virtual Machine using Vagrant and Virtual Box.

At the first, you have to make sure that the USB device was connected to your computer with command:

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VBoxManage.exe list usbhost

Host USB Devices:

UUID:7c078866-a1ef-43fc-a67c-df06ae84e4ac

VendorId:0x04f2(04F2)

ProductId:0xb40a(B40A)

Revision:105.100(105100)

Port:0

USB version/speed:2/High

Manufacturer:Chicony Electronics Co.,Ltd

Address:{36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000}\0008

Current State:Busy

UUID:dec2a0f4-33db-4a42-9af7-ee7beb034c77

VendorId:0x13d3(13D3)

ProductId:0x3362(3362)

Revision:0.1(0001)

Port:0

USB version/speed:1/Full

Manufacturer:Atheros Communications

Product:Bluetooth USB Host Controller

SerialNumber:Alaska Day2006

Address:{e0cbf06c-cd8b-4647-bb8a-263b43f0f974}\0000

Current State:Busy

UUID:2f9068df-3345-477b-8de9-d0272bbbaf15

VendorId:0x1a86(1A86)

ProductId:0x7523(7523)

Revision:2.84(0284)

Port:0

USB version/speed:1/Full

Manufacturer:QinHeng Electronics

Product:USB2.0-Serial

Address:{4d36e978-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001

Current State:Busy

The output above shows the USB Device has VendorID is 0x1a86 and ProductId is 0x7523. So we add the lines below to Vagrantfile: